Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

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Zanes interweaves these conversations with inquiries into the myriad cultural touchpoints, including Terrence Malick’s Badlands and the short stories of Flannery O’Conner, that influenced Springsteen as he was writing the album’s haunting songs.

Fewer are the opportunities to hear oneself in the music, to follow the threads that tie the listener to it. Interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, and a number of recording artists influenced by this seminal release make this an insightful, compelling work. The police had approached Dylan when the future Nobel Prize winner was on the grounds of a home up for sale, apparently investigating the property. Chuck Plotkin, among Springsteen’s producers and a key player in the last stages of Nebraska ’s creation, would talk about the anxious labor of trying to make the album conform to industry standards. I caught the 2016 revival run of his The River Tour (1980–81), only to have low expectations overwhelmed again.That afternoon in Colts Neck, you got the sense that things were going well in the studio next door. Punk rock, lo-fi, indie and introspection: Deliver Me From Nowhere finds the place where all these things collide, in Nebraska.

It’s very interesting to see the self doubt Bruce had and the many ways these songs may have been ruined if they kept with the plan to record them with the E Street band.edu/scholarlyworks/238/ "Professor Levine examines Springsteen's portrayal of the "criminal as brother" in the track "Highway Patrolman. Now that he’s back on tour, waving off Ticketmaster obscenities like a fait accompli, you can argue about how much good faith is left in his tank. Springsteen's Nebraska is his most poignant album, and i listened to his music while I was reading this book. Apparently even Bob Dylan had made his own attempt to see one of Springsteen’s creative spaces, empty and well after the fact.

The documentary’s early edit already included some clips from that very session, with Luther Vandross leading the small vocal combo that added so much to “Young Americans.As the music industry rushed to greet the digital dawn, says Zanes, Springsteen made “a cave painting in the age of photography”. Springsteen’s story telling definitely comes to the fore with this album and the quietness of the solo material lends itself to that but big, full band productions of “Atlantic City” in particular are incredible live. Nebraska can sound like a bad-seed cousin to the Darkness character who sings “Factory” or “Racing in the Street. Zanes, a New Hampshire native and the guitarist for the 1980s Boston band the Del Fuegos before entering academia — he holds a Ph. But why throw all of that history and power behind Ticketmaster when you could use it to lead your audience into a more equitable system?